Ding Xiang (Cloves) 4oz
Pharmaceutical Name: Flos Caryophylatae Botanical Name: Eugenia caryophyllata Thunb. Common Name: Cloves Source of Earliest Record: Yaoxing Lun art Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: The flower buds are gathered in September or March, when the buds turn bright red. Then, they are dried. Properties and Taste: Pungent and warm Meridian: Spleen, stomach and kidney Functions: To warm the spleen and stomach and direct rebellious qi downward; To warm the kidneys and tonify the yang Indications and Combinations: 1. Cold in the stomach manifested as belching and vomiting. *Use with Pinellia tuber (Banxia) and Fresh ginger (Shengjiang). 2. Weakness and cold in the spleen and stomach manifested as poor appetite, vomiting and diarrhea.*Use with Amomum fruit (Sharen) and White atractylodes (Baizhu).3. Weakness and cold in the stomach manifested as belching and vomiting.*Use with Ginseng (Renshen) or Pilose asiabell root (Dangshen) and Fresh ginger (Shengji